"Let no freedom be allowed to novelty, because it is not fitting that any addition should be made to antiquity. Let not the clear faith and belief of our forefathers be fouled by any muddy admixture."
-- Pope Sixtus III

In 2008 Professor Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a convert to Islam since the
age of 15 and practicing Muslim who taught Islamic Theology at Munster
University in Germany announced that he no longer believes that Muhammad
existed. According to his own testimony in German, Kalisch made the
following statement:

“My position with regard to the historical existence of Muhammad is
that I believe neither his existence nor his non-existence can be
proven. I, however, lean towards the non-existence but I don’t think it
can be proven either. It is my impression that, unless there are some
sensational archeological discoveries – i.e. an Islamic “Qumran” or “Nag
Hammadi” — the question of Muhammad’s existence will probably never be
finally clarified.”

“Up to some time ago I was convinced that Muhammad was a historical
figure. Although I always based my thinking on the assumption that the
Islamic historical narrative regarding Muhammad was very unreliable, I
had no doubts that at least the basic lines of his biography were
historically correct.

I have now moved away from this position and will soon publish a book
in which I will, among other things, comment on this question and
explain my arguments in more detail. This essay is only a short summary
of my most important arguments.”

The book was never written probably due to outrage in the Muslim
community, declarations of apostasy from radical Clerics and a genuine
fear for his life. While Kalisch never published his thesis, now in
2012, famed critic and bestselling author Robert Spencer has published
his own investigative work on the question at hand. Spencer is a
Christian who is more interested in exposing Islam then preaching
Christianity, has rightfully entitled his publication “Did Muhammad
Exist, An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins”.

Muslims will immediately jump on the bandwagon of Spencer simply
being an opportunist and hatemonger hoping to make some money through a
proactive title. Quite to the contrary this book promotes legitimate
investigation to the question it posits.

Spencer argues that for the first sixty years, between the 630’s to
690 AD, there is no mention of the Qur’an or Muhammad by either the Arab
conquerors or those who were conquered. He argues that such an omission
and “extraordinary silence” is absolutely strange from a historian’s
perspective. Spencer does say that he believes that a man by the name of
Muhammad may have existed in the same way that a Robin Hood may have
existed, but all of the stories and legends about him were likely made
up by competing factions who are documented by Muslim scholars
themselves as fabricating stories for political reasons and/or to
support their beliefs and practices.

The book goes into further fascinating details about the possibility
of the name ‘Muhammad’ which is mentioned in the Qur’an no more than
four times without any details about a historical figure, could have
simply been an attribute given to Jesus by certain Unitarian Christians.
A coin which was minted during the early parts of the Muslim era shows
one side of the coin with a man holding a cross and on the other side
the name of Muhammad.

Regardless of whether Muhammad existed or not, Spencer makes a valid
point that such an investigation and inquiry is necessary and that while
scholars such as Bart Ehrman are able to produce material to question
the existence of Jesus (others such as Richard Carrier and Acharya S /
DM Murdock have also questioned the existence of Jesus) or for that
matter investigation into the existence of any other historical figure,
why should Muhammad be exempt? Perhaps the right of inquiry and
investigation of this sort is more valuable than the conclusion itself.

...have you noticed how the ChristLast media ignores the Christianity of their victims?

Nigeria and four neighboring countries will share intelligence and border surveillance in the hunt for more than 200 Nigerian girls still held by Boko Haram, and Western nations will provide technical expertise and training to the new regional African effort against the extreme Islamists.

This may be the saddest and most beautiful and most joyful thing seen in years.

If these kids are lucky, they'll just be "re-educated" by the totalitarian theocracy that infests their once fair land. If not, they'll end up in shallow desert graves. Either way, we should pray for their immortal souls. It is time, mohammedan kiddies, to rethink your allegiance to the murderous evildoers who rule over you and to the religion that dares to criminalize the human spirit.

About Me

First of all, the word is SEX, not GENDER. If you are ever tempted to use the word GENDER, don't. The word is SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX! For example: "My sex is male." is correct.
"My gender is male." means nothing. Look it up.
What kind of sick neo-Puritan nonsense is this? Idiot left-fascists, get your blood-soaked paws off the English language. Hence I am choosing "male" under protest.